Bill Press: 'Throw Nancy Pelosi Overboard!'
Blame Nancy Pelosi for what happened? No way. Forget the sexist attacks against her. Instead, celebrate her leadership. She's ready to fight back. She's one Democrat who's not caving in.
Jim Hightower: A SIMMERING WATER WAR
Here in my home state of Texas, we're suffering from withdrawal pains. This is not caused by our addiction to alcohol or drugs - but to plain water.
Jim Hightower: THE GLORY OF WAR
… the raw carnage that is the true story of war, highlighting nine soldiers injured in a single week. Two of them lost a leg; two others lost a leg and a foot; two lost both legs; two lost both legs and a hand; one was paralyzed from the waist down; three also lost their genitals. "Lost" is a euphemism for blown apart.
Susan Estrich: The Unrecorded Moment (Creators Syndicate)
I can't quite remember certain things that happened in college, particularly during my junior year "abroad" at Dartmouth. I'm sure some of that is age (in this case, a rare blessing), but the larger part is that I don't want to remember. And I can't imagine wanting anyone else to, either, at least not with any greater accuracy than their equally limited memory should allow.
Algis Valiunas: The Science of Self-Help (New Atlantis)
A vast apparatus of uplift and solicitude services Americans' longings for success and happiness. Self-help, positive thinking, actualization, motivation, empowerment: the industry of worldly wisdom whirs on like a perpetual-motion dynamo, powered by the consumers' insatiable compulsion to have it all and to feel good about themselves, and by the purveyors' confidence that they, at any rate, can indeed have it all, by turning out swill by the boatload and feeding the cravings of the perennially feckless.
"Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America" by Eugene Robinson: A review by John McWhorter
"Ever wonder why black elected officials spend so much time talking about purely symbolic 'issues,' like an official apology for slavery? Or why they never miss a chance to denounce a racial outburst from a rehab-bound celebrity? It's because symbolism, history, and old-fashioned racism are about the only things they can be sure their African American constituents still have in common."
David Bruce has 39 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $39 you can buy 9,750 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
The new year will begin with a new Speaker of the House (No doubt, 'Tan-boy' Boehner, R-Orange). Nancy Pelosi, the outgoing Speaker, has announced her intention of running for Minority Leader of House... Some Democratic Representatives think this is not such a good idea. Rep. Albio Sires (D-NY) said, "We need some new direction, and I think the best way is for her to move on."... Others support Pelosi, "I am confident that under her leadership we will never abandon our principles," said Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ).
Speaker Nancy Pelosi to seek minority leader post
Pat Buttram based his portrayal of Mr. Haney on Tom Parker - aka "Col. Tom Parker", Elvis Presley's manager - whom he met years earlier when Parker was a carnival barker.
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Baron Dave ("Someone's listening to me. Now I know how a radio feels." -- Grandpa Simpson, The Simpsons) was first, and correct, with:
Col. Tom Parker, of Elvis fame
All Shook Up,
Alan J answered:
Col. Tom Parker
Sally said:
Never having been a fan of (or even watching) the somewhat popular series, "Petticoat Junction," OR "Green Acres," set in the fictional town of Wascilla - Uh, I mean "Hooterville" (not to mention, "Beverly Hillbillies," set in Beverly Hills, CA), I really am not familiar with the character in question... IOWs, I just don't know. (Hey, I was a Big City girl back then...)
That being said, I sure could see Sarah Palin fitting into any of those shows (and pls note that I don't mean that in a good way either...)
One photo is worth how many words again??
PS: We are taking the kids on an out-of-town junket tomorrow, so may not make it back in time for tomorrow's quiz - I'm sure you all will be devastated if I don't, hahaha!
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Pat Buttram based his portrayal of Mr. Haney on Tom Parker - aka "Col. Tom Parker", Elvis Presley's manager - whom he met years earlier when Parker was a carnival barker.
Charlie wrote:
Had a hard time finding this one. Great show, which I only watched a couple of times, unfortunately.
"Colonel" Tom Parker, Elvis' manager.
BadtotheboneBob wrote:
Pat Buttram based his portrayal of Mr. Haney on Tom Parker - aka "Col. Tom Parker", Elvis Presley's manager - whom he met years earlier when Parker was a carnival barker. "
Green Acres" (1965) - Trivia...Good Ol' IMDb comes through again... Piece o' cake...
MAM wrote:.
Pat Buttram based his portrayal of Mr. Haney on Tom Parker - aka "Col. Tom Parker", Elvis Presley's manager - whom he met years earlier when Parker was a carnival barker.
Mr. Hanney Elvis and Col. Tom Parker
PS I am sending my support for the 'E' page for Nov. to Marty tonight. I hope that others are also helping out.
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Pat Buttram based his portrayal of Mr. Haney on Tom Parker - aka "Col. Tom Parker", Elvis Presley's manager - whom he met years earlier when Parker was a carnival barker.
I had a hard time coming up with the answer tonight, probably because we had to "party hardy" for Carla's 64th birthday. Spent the day eating cake, blueberries and gluten free brownies, and playing scrabble. We walk on the wild side! WHOOO!!
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'Undercover Boss', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Pearl Harbor'.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'Simpsons', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Cleveland Show', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 'Paranormal State', another 'Paranormal State', still another 'Paranormal State', yet another 'Paranormal State', followed by a FRESH'Paranormal State', then another FRESH'Paranormal State', followed by a FRESH'Psychic Kids: Children Of The Paranormal'.
AMC offers the movie 'Red Planet', followed by the movie 'Constantine', then a FRESH'The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
[7:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 The Fenwick Arms
[8:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 Peter's
[9:00 AM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 6 Paradise
[10:00 AM] Law & Order: UK - Ep 7 Alesha
[11:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 8
[1:40 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[3:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 22 Imaginary Friend
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 23 I, Borg
[5:00 PM] Life in the Freezer - The Bountiful Sea (20)
[5:20 PM] March of the Penguins
[7:00 PM] Life in the Freezer - Footsteps in the Snow
[7:30 PM] King Arthur
[10:00 PM] Luther - Episode 5
[11:15 PM] Luther: Inside Look - Episode 5
[11:30 PM] King Arthur - King Arthur
[2:00 AM] Luther - Episode 5
[3:15 AM] Luther: Inside Look - Episode 5
[3:30 AM] Blame It On Rio
[5:30 AM] The Graham Norton Show Doctor Who Special 2
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', still another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Good Luck Chuck', followed by the movie 'Wedding Crashers'.
FX has the movie 'There's Something About Mary', followed by the movie 'What Happens In Vegas'.
History has 'IRT Deadliest Roads', another 'IRT Deadliest Roads', followed by a FRESH'IRT Deadliest Roads', and 'WWII In HD'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Mrs. Dalloway
[7:40AM] 360 Sessions
[8:05AM] Spirited Away
[10:15AM] Hero
[12:00PM] Arrested Development
[12:30PM] Arrested Development
[1:00PM] Arrested Development
[1:30PM] Arrested Development
[2:00PM] Arrested Development
[2:30PM] Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
[3:00PM] Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
[3:30PM] Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
[4:00PM] Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
[4:30PM] Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
[5:00PM] Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
[5:30PM] Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
[6:00PM] Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
[6:30PM] The Hearse
[8:20PM] Open Water 2: Adrift
[10:00PM] Undeclared
[10:30PM] Undeclared
[11:00PM] The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
[11:30PM] Arrested Development
[12:00AM] The Hearse
[1:45AM] Open Water 2: Adrift
[3:20AM] Dallas 362
[5:00AM] Undeclared
[5:30AM] Undeclared (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[7:00 AM] Frontrunners
[8:20 AM] Love Songs
[10:00 AM] e2 Design
[10:30 AM] e2 Design
[11:00 AM] Cities On Speed - Mumbai Disconnected (Episode 2, Season 1)
[12:00 PM] ICONOCLASTS - Jane Goodall + Charlize Theron (Episode 1, Season 5)
[1:00 PM] Joan Mitchell: Portrait Of An Abstract Painter
[2:00 PM] Love Comes Lately
[3:30 PM] Frontrunners
[5:00 PM] Love Songs
[6:45 PM] Dinner Rush
[8:30 PM] How to Be
[10:00 PM] Little Children
[12:30 AM] Drama/mex
[2:05 AM] How to Be
[3:30 AM] Little Children
[5:55 AM] Dinner Rush (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Fact Or Faked: Paranormal Files', another 'Fact Or Faked: Paranormal Files', 'Hollywood Treasure', another 'Hollywood Treasure', still another 'Hollywood Treasure', and yet another 'Hollywood Treasure'.
Actor Eli Wallach accompanied by his wife, actress Anne Jackson (C), is greeted by director Francis Ford Coppola (R) as they arrive at the Governors Awardsheld by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Hollywood, California November 13, 2010. Wallach will be presented an honorary Oscar and Coppola will received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the event.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Pro-democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi walked free Saturday after more than seven years under house arrest, welcomed by thousands of cheering supporters outside the decaying lakefront villa that has been her prison.
Her guards effectively announced the end of her detention, pulling back the barbed-wire barriers that sealed off her potholed street and suddenly allowing thousands of expectant supporters to surge toward the house. Many chanted her name as they ran. Some wept.
A few minutes later, with the soldiers and police having evaporated into the Yangon twilight, she climbed atop a stepladder behind the gate as the crowd began singing the national anthem.
"I haven't seen you for a long time," the 65-year-old Nobel Peace Prize Laureate said to laughter, smiling deeply as she held the metal spikes that top the gate. When a supporter handed up a bouquet, she pulled out a flower and wove it into her hair.
Speaking briefly in Burmese, she told the crowd, which quickly swelled to as many as 5,000 people: "If we work in unity, we will achieve our goal."
Actress Sally Field poses outside the Sally Field Performing Arts Center at Birmingham High School Friday Nov. 12, 2010 in Los Angeles. Field graduated from Birmingham H.S. in 1964.
Photo by Nick Ut
Conan O'Brien has finished his first week on TBS with a hefty sampling by a remarkably younger-skewing audience.
Thursday's show drew 2 million viewers, less than half the number who gathered for his much-awaited, much-promoted debut on Monday, according to the Nielsen Co.
But of those 2 million viewers, nearly 1.4 million were in the 18-to-49 age group that many advertisers want to reach. All this week, cable network TBS has crowed about the median age for "Conan" viewers - about 30 years old. By contrast, the median audiences for late-night talk shows on the broadcast networks crack the 50-year-old mark, or push past it.
For "Conan" - which airs Mondays through Thursdays at 11 p.m. EST - the big question becomes: How many more viewers will fall away as his new show's core audience reveals itself?
In this Nov. 12, 2010 photo released by Theatre Within, members of 'Playing For Change' and Jackson Browne, right, perform at the Theatre Within's 30thAnnual John Lennon Tribute Concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York.
Photo by Mark Lamhut
Dick Van Dyke has told how his life was save by a pod of porpoises, after he was cast adrift at sea while surfing.
The 84-year-old star of Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang told US chat show host Craig Ferguson the bizarre story of how he fell asleep on a 10ft surfboard off Virginia Beach on the east coast of America.
When he woke up he found himself stranded far out at sea, and thought he was surrounded by sharks.
"They turned out to be porpoises. They pushed me all the way to shore - I'm not kidding!"
The actor and singer did not say when the incident occurred but revealed he "doesn't surf any more".
A professor at Manchester University in Britain says he has uncovered the truth behind the death of German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
Professor Stephen Parker, an expert on modern German literature, said the playwright died from an undiagnosed rheumatic fever which attacked his heart and motorneural system, eventually leading to a fatal heart failure in 1956.
Previously it was thought his death in 1956 aged 58 had been caused by a heart attack.
Researching for a biography on Brecht, best known for works such as "Mother Courage" and "The Threepenny Opera," Parker came across an obscure note about the author's childhood diagnosis with an enlarged heart, one symptom of rheumatic fever.
Musician Elvis Costello (L) and producer/director David Furnish pose on the red carpet during the Gemini Awards in Toronto November 13, 2010.
Photo by Mike Cassese
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was released from a hospital on Saturday and was undergoing antibiotic treatment at home for leg and blood infections, her husband said.
Gabor, 93, was hospitalized on Friday for a suspected blood clot that turned out to be an infection. She has been in and out of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles since she fell and broke her hip in July, and was so sick in August that she asked to have the last rites read.
Her husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, told Reuters that two nurses were overseeing her home care.
The owner of a Hollywood mask company said Saturday he has mixed feelings that a Chinese asylum seeker who fled to Canada disguised as an elderly white man used one of his products.
SPFXMasks owner Rusty Slusser said while he's proud the mask was sufficiently detailed to fool authorities, he's not happy about the way the mask, which retails for $1,259, was used.
Canadian authorities said the Chinese man used the mask to board the flight before removing it in the plane's washroom.
The asylum-seeker was arrested upon arrival in Vancouver, British Columbia on Oct. 29. Canada Border Services lawyer David Macdonald said the man presented authorities with a Peoples Republic of China identity card.
Spanish actor Javier Bardem, center, accompanied by Spanish lawmakers as well as other political, civil rights and trade union leaders march in supportof Western Sahara, in Madrid, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010. Thousand of protesters are demonstrating in Madrid against Morocco's recent crackdown that has left at least 10 people dead in the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara in northwestern Africa.
Photo by Paul White
He says he was victim of a palace plot. They say they were just faithful servants. The tabloids say it's New York's trial of the year.
Prince Jefri Bolkiah, brother of the Sultan of Brunei, is suing his British former financial advisors for allegedly cheating him out of some seven million dollars between 2004 and 2006.
Faith Zaman and her husband Thomas Derbyshire insist they did nothing wrong and even claim to be owed millions more by a prince whose lavish lifestyle, said to include everything from harems to gold toilet paper holders, is legendary.
What jurors were not hearing was anything about Prince Jefri's even more intimate details.
When a humanitarian worker asked Ajak Dau Akech in 1988 why he fled civil war in Sudan and walked 1,000 perilous miles to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, the boy answered with words few 8-year-olds would know.
"We ran away from massacring and butchering of the people," the boy said.
More than 20 years later, Akech had no idea he had spoken those words until he read them from a document he didn't know until recently even existed.
Akech and other Sudanese war orphans, known as the Lost Boys of Sudan, are starting to receive eight-page records that include their family histories, the names of people they traveled with on their flight from war, the names of those who died along the way, medical information and observations about their well-being and photographs of themselves.
The records were a project by Radda Barnen, the Swedish branch of Save the Children International, and were meant to document the histories of the boys who arrived at the refugee camp without parents in hopes they could be reunited later.
The eastern Dutch city of Nijmegen is taking 10 statues off the streets after some of its bronzes were stolen and most likely melted down to take advantage of the high price of the metal alloy.
Among the statues to be removed for safe-keeping is "Mariken van Nieumeghen" -- or Mariken from Nijmegen -- which refers to a local character in one of the Netherlands' earliest books, written around the year 1500.
The city plans to protect the statues by implanting a GPS chip or may replace them with copies made from cheaper materials.
US researchers on Thursday unveiled the secret of how cats lap water or milk with such elegance, a phenomenon that happens so fast it cannot be followed by human eyes.
Cats are among the many species that, unlike humans, cannot close their mouths and create suction.
With help from from high-speed video taken of a felines lapping liquid, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Princeton University found that household cats and larger felines like tigers balance gravity and inertia as they imbibe liquids.
The research will appear in the November 12 issue of the journal Science.
A Spanish filmmaker critical of the military dictatorship under Gen. Francisco Franco and who was credited with helping to revive the country's movie industry after its civil war died Saturday.
Luis Garcia Berlanga had Alzheimer's disease and died at his home in Madrid, according to Spain's film academy, of which he was an honorary president and co-founder. He was 89.
Born in the eastern city of Valencia, Berlanga wrote and directed his first short in 1948 and in 1951 made his first feature film, "Esa Pareja Feliz," (That Happy Couple) in collaboration with Juan Antonio Bardem, father uncle of Hollywood actor Javier Bardem.
He was also a contemporary and friend of iconic director Luis Buñuel.
"Along with Buñuel, he is one of the most important filmmakers of all time," said Alex de la Iglesia, the president of Spain's film academy. "His films "Placido" and "El Verdugo" (The Executioner) are two of Spain's best movies, and Berlanga is one of the most important directors in the world."
Berlanga's 1953 film "Bienvenido, Mister Marshall" ("Welcome, Mr. Marshall") explored Spain's hopes that the United States would help the country restore democracy and prosperity as it had in much of Europe after World War II.
Making such films was difficult for Berlanga. He was critical of Franco, the victor in Spain's civil war, and had to devise a film language to beat the strict censorship it imposed.
Berlanga had said that Spain's official censors were not the only ones he had to get past, because Franco personally insisted on viewing his films before allowing their release. He said he and fellow scriptwriter Rafael Azcona had to be extremely creative to outwit them. "Rafael and I had the best work system, that is none," he said, hinting at their ability to improvise successfully.
Fifty years after filming "Bienvenido Mister Marshall," Berlanga sat behind a camera for the last time, to film a 10-minute sequence called "El sueno de la maestra" ("Teacher's Dream"), which had originally been planned for inclusion in the movie but had been banned by the censors.
Devotees hold the skulls of their relatives during a Catholic mass on the Day of Skulls, at the General Cemetery in La Paz, November 8, 2010. Bolivians who keep close relatives' skulls at home as a macabre talisman flock to the cemetery chapel once a year to have the craniums blessed and to bring themselves good luck in the future.
Photo by David Mercado
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